Dose - Researching Drugs Language

[KagBet]

My friend John Smith is writing a fictional novel. He asked me if I could help. I decided to research here.

One of the central characters in the book has a connection with a dealer. He wants to buy the drug known as Cannabis for him and his friend.

The central character wants to smoke it in a joint. To make the book seem not that cheesy it has to be realistic.

What would the character ask the dealer for, without sounding like a complete moron, if he wanted to have enough for him and his friend to smoke it in a joint? And what form is it likely to come in?

[Nature Boy]

Forgive me if this comes across as a little bit rude but a good writer never writes about things they know nothing about. Purchasing a small amount of cannabis off a dealer isn't something that needs glorification and stylistic phrasing. It's like buying anything from someone:

"Can I get an eighth [of cannabis] off you?"

Dealer: "Yeah."

And that's that.

[lexifer]

Agreed.

Some phrases swim uses from time to time.

"You got that _____?" fill in with "grizzle, g, gram, sack, bag" (gram of cannabis); "cut, eighth" (eighth-ounce of cannabis)

To which the salesman will usually reply: "yup." or "yup, stop down."

Really there isn't much substance to a transactionional conversation of this sort.

As long as you don't put something like "Hey man can I get a one gram bag of marijuana?", you'll be fine.

Also, swim has come to believe that swiy doesn't have much experience in the realm of drug usage. This is assumed only by reading your post so he could be wrong, but swim would have to agree with swinatureboy and say that one usually writes about something they are familiar with. Not to sound like a dick.

Anyways good luck with swiy's novel.

[aBakes]

SWIM would say something like "Have any green, bud, weed." and as far as amounts go SWIM would say "Can i get a half eighth, half dub, eighth, dub?

[Rhin]

Well lately SWIM hasn't heard of many people going to a dealer for just a joint (They do of course) but something like "Could I get a $20 bag" and then writing the next page about the character rolling the joint with the weed in the twenty bag. Just say there was about 2.4 grams in the bag or something.


But if you haven't tried the drug I recommend writing about something else. No of fence but if you haven't ever tried weed you will never be able to get the feeling out into words no matter how hard you try. I have read books and thought the writer was crazy by how he wrote about weed just to find out he never tried it.